By Sanchita Khurana: Joyce’s semi-autobiographical story of growth and freedom chronicles the protagonist Stephen Daedalus’ life as he moves from being an infant to a university student to a seemingly independent artist. While it sheds light on the difficulties an artist has to face to
By Arshiya Mediratta: Winner of the much deserved Orange Prize in 2005, Lionel Shriver made history with her consummate fiction novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin. How many times have we read a book and thought to ourselves, “Damn, could there be a killer
By Madhur Gupta: The Shadow Lines is the second novel written by Amitav Ghosh and is considered to be his best work till now, for which he was also awarded the Sahitya aAademi Award in 1989. The novel was begun by Ghosh after the assassination
By Anushri Saxena: Rating: 3/5 STORYLINE: In school-going Vivek’s innocent eyes, Kaushik Mistry was everything an ideal man ought to be like: he was intelligent, wise, and humble, he had an appealing personality, he was successful; in short, he was a complete man, for whom
By Neha Bhandarkar: I say to Sarla, ‘You too should try to meditate.’ ‘Why me?’ ‘Because meditation cools down your brain. See how much it has helped me.’ 'Sarla chuckles, ‘My brain is cool enough as it is.’ 'But mediation will make it a lot
By Aayushi Samour: In his early teens, Kurt Cobain - America's most legitimate cultural icon, told a friend, "I am going to be a superstar musician, kill myself and go out in flame of glory”. Not too many years later, he did just the same.
By Nirav Shah: The book “Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives” written by V Raghunathan and Prabina Rajib deals with the common issues that any Investor faces , specifically those who do not have the technical background. What’s the plot? The book is a compilation of 250
By Babita Balan: The World is flat according to three times Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman. The theory came into existence when he visited India, where he witnessed Indians with American names and accent communicating to Americans miles away. What he means is a level
By Adeena Jamal: So another Chetan Bhagat hits the stand. Fifth to be precise.The book is a Bollywood script with all the drama and jazz. Chetan Bhagat knows the Indian psyche and how to play around with it and thus has the best money making